John A Boehner

Fearful of celebratory images as a hurricane headed for the Gulf Coast, Republicans scrapped an opening night convention program that was to have featured speeches by President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. "This is a time when we do away with our...

Charts at the ready, notes spread out before him, Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett begins another address in the House of Representatives on the dangers of America's dependence on oil. The Western Maryland Republican has given nearly 50 such speeches at the...

With his selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain is giving his campaign a political makeover: Rather than selling himself as a war hero with national security credentials, he is donning the mantle of the reformer. The new...

Republicans scrambled Sunday to reshape their national convention to a more austere and less political event as Hurricane Gustav upended their plans to showcase John McCain and his new running mate, and to take apart Barack Obama in a nationally televised...

Democrats' stance against offshore drilling has shifted more, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi signaling yesterday her willingness to consider opening up more coastal areas to oil and gas exploration. In her party's weekly radio address, Pelosi said...

WASHINGTON House Democrats voted down a public reprimand yesterday that Republicans sought against influential Rep. Charles B. Rangel, a New York Democrat, over a questionable housing arrangement that he insists violated no laws. Rangel, chairman of the...

A divided Federal Communications Commission has ruled that Comcast Corp. violated federal policy when it blocked Internet traffic for some subscribers and has ordered the cable giant to change the way it manages its network. In a precedent-setting move,...

House Republicans scuttled a bill yesterday that Democrats had hoped would help lower gasoline prices by forcing the Energy Department to release 70 million barrels of oil - about a three-day supply - from the national stockpile. Democrats promised...

The House approved an extra three months of jobless benefits yesterday for all unemployed Americans, knowing the plan's chances are slight in the Senate and almost nonexistent at the White House. After failing to get a veto-proof two-thirds margin by...

The House approved a sweeping plan yesterday that responds to the most serious housing crisis since the Depression by providing a federal backstop for struggling mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and aid to homeowners facing foreclosure. In a...

Democratic and Republican leaders in the House of Representatives announced agreement yesterday on a long-overdue war funding bill. They say they expect President Bush to sign it. The agreement on the bill, announced by Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer...

by Matthew Hay Brown, updated with comments from Pelosi and Shea-Porter Congressional Republicans have wasted little time in trying to turn today's Supreme Court decision to overturn the District of Columbia handgun ban into a campaign issue. With the...